Maia: Segal Teaching Silva Is a Lie And a Joke

I'm sure Cain likes him. He pays him the most respect and gave him that rematch with no issues.
That was one of the low points for me as a fan. Like the nicest guy ever took his *** whooping like a man and didn't quit when most men would have and they booed him. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Everybody knows that Seagal used his status as a reincarnated lama to travel back in time and become the father of all martial arts.

Maia is lying, just like when Steven's first wife said he only got his Aikido black belt because the judge fell asleep during his presentation and gave him the belt rather than admit he'd fallen asleep and ask Seagal to start over.

Everyone knew it was a joke, I don't think Seagal can even lift his leg up half the length needed for a front kick.

That being said, I'd pay money to see Seagal and JCVD go at it. Jean Claude by flying crescent kick. I can only dream though, atleast we got to hear about Gene LeBell choking out Seagal, two times according to Joe Rogan.

Bro, Machida has been doing Karate since he was 4 year old. Anderson is a 5th degree TKD Blackbelt and doing it since he was 7 year old. Both have done MMA for about 20 years each. What the hell could a Aikido expert possibly teach them, other than some nasty wrist lock/throws. Aikido is not exactly what I would call a kicking based discipline, Karate, Muay Thai and TKD is, and both have been efficient in both for years with blackbelts, of course Segal was glory hogging these 2, I mean he actually tried to take credit for Lyotos kick on Couture and Andos kick on Vitor, and they both let him. In both of those kicks they knew exactly what they were doing.

Segal is a Aikido master but I'm questioning how much he really teaches them in anything really.

I have to agree with you. Myself I took kickboxing for years and a friend of mine was a high ranked Aikido guy who had his own dojo and invited me to his class. From everything I seen and had him try to teach was quite useless in a street fight. He put me in some wack wrist lock(which I had pretty much had to give to him) and he was trying to show me and the class what he could do and it did literally nothing but iritate the muscles and joints. Funny enough while hes trying to apply more pressure someone called my cell phone which was in my pocket and continued a conversation while hes reefing on my wrist and still he had no such luck of making me want out.

That's when I learned Aikido is absolutely not helpful in a real fight, I'm sure there is something they can teach you that will help but it's not worth the time. If you know a bit about grappling you can stuff most of what they throw at you.

Segal taught Andy the front kick, how to get KOed and his amazing clinch work.
They spent hours in Segal's mom's basement drilling clinch work for the Franklin fight. "The public is not ready to see me, Anderson. Our time will come"

Segal also trained Machida to throw the Crane Kick that KOed Couture and the Cross that KOed Bader. "When the time comes....hit him"

1) I thought wrist locks and small joint manipulations were not allowed in mma?
2) lets work form the idea that Seagal is a master in what he does. At a certain point a person becomes very good at noticing minute fine tuning details. I have seen it suggested that a person turn their legs 10 degrees in for a throw and felt the effects of that subtle change. People do not learn that after 5years, and sometimes by the time they figure out the mechanics their bodies are no longer able to perform these changes due to lack of mobility, but they can help other people tune these little details.
3) for all I know Seagal is a joke that should never have been allowed near a dojo, but that is a discussion I am not in any position to have as I have never met the man